Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/dimbaną
Proto-Germanic
Alternative forms
- *dimpaną
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰémbʰ-e-ti, from *dʰembʰ- (“to fog”),[1] which appears to be a *bʰ-extension of *dʰemH- (“to smoke, blow”); see Sanskrit धम् (dham, “to blow into”) for more potential cognates.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdim.bɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*dimbaną[1]
Inflection
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *dimbō | *dimbaų | — | *dimbai | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *dimbizi | *dimbaiz | *dimb | *dimbazai | *dimbaizau | |
| 3rd singular | *dimbidi | *dimbai | *dimbadau | *dimbadai | *dimbaidau | |
| 1st dual | *dimbōz | *dimbaiw | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *dimbadiz | *dimbaidiz | *dimbadiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *dimbamaz | *dimbaim | — | *dimbandai | *dimbaindau | |
| 2nd plural | *dimbid | *dimbaid | *dimbid | *dimbandai | *dimbaindau | |
| 3rd plural | *dimbandi | *dimbain | *dimbandau | *dimbandai | *dimbaindau | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *damb | *dumbį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *damft | *dumbīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *damb | *dumbī | ||||
| 1st dual | *dumbū | *dumbīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *dumbudiz | *dumbīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *dumbum | *dumbīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *dumbud | *dumbīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *dumbun | *dumbīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *dimbandz | *dumbanaz | ||||
Derived terms
Descendants
- Old High German: *dimpfan
- Middle High German: dimpfen
- Old Norse: *dimba